Meaning of Otherworld | Babel Free

Definitions

1. The other realms of existence beyond the world of mankind, especially the realms of the dead or the fairy folk.
2. A world beyond death; an afterlife.
3. A world other than the everyday world.
4. A mythical abode of otherworldly beings.

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Examples

“In these dreams the spirits of the Otherworld materialized in the shape of animals and spoke to them.”

“It is a time when folk remember their Ancestors in the Otherworlds and when the veil between the worlds is so thin that, with a little magic, you could pass through it.”

“The spiritual skill that above all identifies the shaman is the ability to go into trance and journey through the Otherworld at will.”

“We do not want, of course, to return to all the crudities and barbarities of the past; but also we do not want to become attenuated and spiritualized out of all mundane sense and recognition, and to live in an otherworld Paradise void of application to earthly affairs.”

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